Robert Gramling1, Justin Nash, Karen Siren, Larry Culpepper. 1. Brown Medical School Department of Family Medicine and Brown Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 02860, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate whether the importance family physicians place on familial cancer-risk screening is influenced by expectations for the motivational impact of a high-risk genetic test result. METHODS: Mailed survey of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. RESULTS: Respondents expected patients would increase pursuit of screening for cancer (99.6%) and other diseases (89.9%), quit smoking (93.6%), and improve diet/exercise (92.5%). The degree of motivational effect was significantly related to the importance they place on screening. CONCLUSIONS: Family physicians believe that a high-risk cancer genetic-test result would motivate their patients to pursue risk-reduction behavior, and this belief is related to the importance they place on screening their patients for an inherited risk of cancer.
PURPOSE: To investigate whether the importance family physicians place on familial cancer-risk screening is influenced by expectations for the motivational impact of a high-risk genetic test result. METHODS: Mailed survey of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. RESULTS: Respondents expected patients would increase pursuit of screening for cancer (99.6%) and other diseases (89.9%), quit smoking (93.6%), and improve diet/exercise (92.5%). The degree of motivational effect was significantly related to the importance they place on screening. CONCLUSIONS: Family physicians believe that a high-risk cancer genetic-test result would motivate their patients to pursue risk-reduction behavior, and this belief is related to the importance they place on screening their patients for an inherited risk of cancer.
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